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Intermediate

Explore our specialized learning modules.

Language Learning

If you’re trying to learn a new language but all you can say is, “My bike is green,” you’re not alone. Multilingual author Sophia Smith Galer shares fun and effective tips to make language learning part of your daily life - and help build your fluency.

Leadership

Students practise leadership vocabulary, comprehension questions, reported speech, causative structures and conditionals. The lesson ends with critical discussion about leadership style, accountability, humility and organizational success.

Networking

Students learn professional networking in English. Students practise introductions, elevator pitches, follow-up questions, small talk, and arranging future contact. Activities include a role play between a marketing manager and product designer.

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Meetings

The lesson focuses on high-stakes boardroom meetings. Activities include a role-play a tense budget review requiring evidence-based pushback, compromise, clear decisions, named owners and deadlines.

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Life in the year 2100

From humanoid companions to silicone medical assistants, intelligent robots of the future could relieve pressure in understaffed care homes. But can they ever truly replace human carers?

Aliens

Physicists and researchers discuss the tension between searching for alien radio signals and proactively sending messages into the cosmos. They explore the risks and ethical considerations of initiating contact, highlighting the immense challenges posed by interstellar distances and time scales.

Plastic

The lesson explores the global plastic problem through vocabulary, grammar and discussion tasks. Compare consumer responsibility with corporate and government action

Hard News

The lesson focuses on delivering hard news with compassion in professional leadership. Students practise C1 vocabulary about candour, psychological safety and emotional impact, study concessive clauses and distancing language, rewrite direct messages tactfully.

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Happiness at Work

The lesson explores whether work can or should make people happy. Students practise C1 vocabulary about fulfilment, vocation, identity, motivation, boundaries and burnout, study advanced clause patterns

Visualisation

The lesson explores whether visualisation can help people prepare for a better future. Students practise vocabulary about mental imagery, outcomes, goals and performance, study modals like can, could and might, use second conditionals, and discuss positive thinking, overconfidence, preparation, future challenges and mental practice.

Sushi

The lesson explores how sushi became popular around the world. Students practise vocabulary about delicacies, cuisine, ingredients, preservation, adaptation and global popularity, study past simple and present perfect, explain food changes over time, and discuss authenticity, globalisation, traditional cuisine and the journey of famous foods.

Memory

The lesson explores practical ways to improve memory and study habits. Students practise vocabulary about recall, concentration, association, vivid images and repetition, study imperatives for advice and purpose clauses, and discuss memory techniques, understanding versus memorisation, technology, personal habits and designing an effective memory routine.

Pre-Meeting

The lesson explains how important decisions are often shaped before formal meetings. Students practise C1 vocabulary about stakeholder mapping, buy-in, leverage, hidden agendas and strategic alignment.

Presentations

The lesson focuses on executive presence and looking confident during presentations. Analyse body language and delivery techniques, and discuss confidence andauthenticity.

Creativity

The lesson explores how to be creative on demand under pressure. 

Charts

The lesson explores how charts can shape public understanding, decision-making and trust. Students practise C1 vocabulary about correlation, causality, outliers, narratives and statistical literacy.

Bad Meetings

The lesson explores how to make workplace meetings more effective and less wasteful. Students practise C1 vocabulary about stakeholders, accountability, consensus, meeting creep and decision fatigue.

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